What Does “Consubstantial” Mean in the Bible?
A word from the Creed: the Son has the same nature as the Father. He is God just as the Father is.
It can mean
- Where it comes from: from the Council of Nicaea, in the year 325. It said that the Son is one God with the Father.
- At Mass: in the Creed we say that the Son is “consubstantial with the Father.”
Where it appears in the Bible
John 1:1; John 1:14
What the Bible says
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 242 and 465; Compendium of the Catechism, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed